Short story

It was June 27Th in some village. This is the same day the lottery started. The lottery usually took the days. This was something the town use to do every year until they stopped.. Recently they started doing it again. Their was this black box the town used to pick out the winner. It has been pasted down for generations. Their use to be a lot of different rituals they would do but now its a little more simple since they don't remember them all. A important one is who ever participates in the lottery has to be sworn in by the lottery official. Ans the praticpates are usually the male head of household. The lottery worked by the people getting up and taking a paper out the box. They will not look at the paper until every has taken a turn. If your paper was blank you did not win. If your paper had a black dot on it you won. Now the prize for this lottery is that you get stoned for death. This isn't really a lottery you want to be in. This is why a lot of other towns stopped doing the lottery.